Mountaineer is the band of singer-songwriter Marcel Hulst. At the end of 2014, he records the serene acoustic album 1974 in his hometown of Amsterdam. Intimate songs in which acoustic guitar, lap steel, piano, double bass, and hushed vocals
explore the boundaries between Americana, folk, and alt-country. When the follow-up Lewis & Clark is released by Concerto Records in 2022, everything falls into place: Dutch newspaper NRC calls the album “timeless” (****) and music magazine OOR refers to it as “the first strong album from the Netherlands in 2022.”

In April 2026, the band releases its third album Country Dragon, under the wing of Excelsior Recordings. Together with producer Diederik van den Brandt (Aidan & the Wild), Mountaineer spent over a year crafting the melancholy and at times
psychedelic album, featuring eleven songs about loss, faltering ideals, and personal setbacks.